In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"--and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looking at the "meaning making process" as an open-ended social dialogue in which strikingly different social narratives vie for influence, they outline a strongly constructivist approach to trauma and apply this theoretical model in a series of extensive case studies, including the Nazi Holocaust, slavery in the United States, and September 11, 2001.
- ISBN10 6612762802
- ISBN13 9786612762802
- Publish Date 21 February 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 304
- Language English